Erzählungen

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discussed in biography

Kleist also wrote eight masterly novellas, collected in
Erzählungen (1810–11), of which “
Das Erdbeben in Chili” (“The Earthquake in Chile”), “
Michael Kohlhaas,” and “
Die Marquise von O…” have become well-known as tales of violence and mystery. They are all...